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one | video | un: cassim | backdated to the doll event

[The less said about how long it took him to figure out how to use this damn thing the better. He was walking and preoccupied and is not here to be judged.

He is instead here to judge someone else....even if the small five year old in his arms is probably judging him anyway.]

Would this kid's shixiong please come pick him up? I found him wandering around alone. [You know, during a kidnapping crisis. At night.] Says he can fight but I'm not lettin' a five year old wander around alone. You have an hour from me sending this to get a hold of me or I'll take him back to my place and we'll try again in the morning.

[Alibaba's going to complain, isn't he?]

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Oh, a lost child? I can-

( Wait. It's been years, but he knows that face.

A face he nearly stabbed. )

...Ah. Hello.

[It takes Cassim a moment but then there's recognition and...mild annoyance.]

Sinbad's here?

( Ja'far seems to momentarily crumple, but then he's back to himself, and rigid, uncertain of Cassim. )

No. He's not. Is your troupe here?

Just Alibaba.

[Who is still his troupe, fuck you.]

( Wait. What?

What? )

Alibaba is here?

Yeah. Showed up the same time I did.

Is he safe, then? With everything going on...

He's fine. Not to happy about being dead but fine.

Dead? Alibaba isn't dead. At least not-

Oh.

Ah. I think I know when he is from.

And you? What is the last thing you remember before coming here?

Dying.

[Very much in the tone of "what the hell do you think"]

Apologies. People have come here from all sorts of timelines, and...

I am from years ahead in Alibaba's future, should my guess be correct.

Technically my future too, not that I get to see it.

That was due to your own actions and choices.

Somewhat, but I'm not talkin' about that.

[Not with you.]

[ Alibaba might complain, but he wouldn't have left a five-year-old out there, either, so in the end, the matter is probably moot.

...He has to go ask Billy to show him how to use this thing, so it takes a bit before he shows up as a reply. ]

What happened??

Literally what I said happened. I was out, I found the kid, the kid is being a brat.

Well, then. You should be in your element, right?

[ Pot, meet Kettle. ]

Someone really lost a five-year-old out there? Have you had any luck finding who he belongs to yet?